scholarly journals Self-Efficacy and Grade Point Average in Relationship to Academic Success in Baccalaureate Nursing Students

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Miller
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Grade Point Average ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students ◽  
Grade Point

scholarly journals Junior baccalaureate nursing students: Factors that predict success

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ellen M.T. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students ◽  
Early College ◽  
Sat Scores ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Baccalaureate Education ◽  
Predict Academic Success

Baccalaureate nursing education strives toward comprehensive preparation of diverse nursing students to meet current healthcare workforce demands. Identification of factors that predict academic success is imperative to meet this goal. The purpose of this study was to discover whether specific academic and noncognitive variables predicted baccalaureate nursing students’ academic success, as defined by junior-year grade point average (GPA) and persistence in nursing education. This post-facto correlational study was conducted over two semesters. Junior year nursing students (N = 150) answered the Short Grit Survey and the Noncognitive Questionnaire, and their academic records were examined for previous college grades (GPAs) and SAT scores. Demographic groups were compared using t-tests, and the data were regressed on junior-year student GPAs and persistence in the major to determine predictors of success. Several significant differences between the participant group responses were noted. Only early-college GPAs predicted junior-year success. SAT scores, grit and noncognitive factors, as well as demographic variables, did not predict academic success. These results inform baccalaureate education programs about priorities for admitting and advising students, and support the use of early-college GPAs to predict the academic success of junior-year baccalaureate nursing students.

Predictors of academic success in first semester baccalaureate nursing students

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia M. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students ◽  
Student Attrition ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
First Semester

Recently the number of students graduating from nursing programs has been insufficient to replace nurses leaving the workforce. The attrition rate for students entering baccalaureate nursing education programs is approximately 30%, with most (82.3%), leaving in their first semester of study (Morgan, 2001). Schools of nursing need to establish ways to decrease student attrition from programs. This study was an attempt to determine whether self-esteem, self-efficacy, and environmental variables are predictors of student attrition in first-semester baccalaureate nursing students, using a descriptive correlational design to explore the relationship between these variables in a non-probability convenience sample of 66 first semester baccalaureate nursing students. No statistically significant relationship between self-esteem, self-efficacy, or environmental variables and student attrition was revealed.

scholarly journals Effects of peer mentoring on nursing students’ perceived stress, sense of belonging, self-efficacy and loneliness

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
June M. Raymond ◽  
Kim Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
College Level ◽  
Psychological Sense

Mentorship has been around for years and has been explored in nursing education in the clinical settings. Despite evidence that indicates that the academic environment is the most common source of stress, little mentorship implementation and investigation has been done in this environment. The purpose of this research is to describe the effects of a mentorship experience on the level of perceived stress, sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and loneliness by first year baccalaureate nursing students. A quasi-experimental design was conducted.  Seventy baccalaureate nursing students in the first year of their program (n = 34 in the experimental group; n = 36 in the control group) enrolled in a single baccalaureate nursing program were recruited. Third year mentors were purposefully selected by nursing professors within the program. The Perceived Stress Scale, the College Self-Efficacy Inventory (CSEI)–Revised, Sense of Belonging-Psychological, Sense of Belonging-Antecedents, and the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale were used to evaluate the various concepts as these tools were used in previous research with college level students and deemed to be reliable and valid tools for measuring the relevant concepts. The mentorship program was statistically significant in reducing first year nursing students’ perceived stress and loneliness. It also appeared to increase their sense of self-efficacy and psychological sense of belonging. The mentorship experience could potentially enhance the student experience as well as aid the academic institution in retention and resource maximization. The focus of this research was on the academic mentoring by peers and is worth further exploration and possible wide-scale integration within nursing education.

scholarly journals Predictors of Academic Success in Baccalaureate Nursing Students: Is ATI TEAS Predictive

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Kathleen F. Tate
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Nursing Shortage ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students ◽  
Predictors Of Academic Success

The population of the U.S. is aging, and the prevalence of chronic diseases is increasing. By 2030 the elderly population of the United States will be twice that of the current senior population, and the national demand for Registered Nurses (RNs) is expected to grow by approximately 21%. Nurses make up the single largest health profession in the United States. The nursing workforce is also aging. The average age of a registered nurse is 48.8 years old. Fifty percent of RNs are age 50 or older, and 12.4% are age 65 or older [1]. The problem is clear; unless more registered nurses enter the field, a critical nursing shortage will exist. The most distressing factor related to the predicted nursing shortage is the number of students who choose a career in nursing, enroll in a program, and fail to graduate, or graduate and fail to pass the NCLEX-RN on the first attempt. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a predictive relationship between academic success in baccalaureate nursing students and essential academic skills of reading, English, math, and science. Using a retrospective, correlational study design, the research revealed that there are indeed predictors of academic success.

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